Communication 445 - Screenwriting

Fall
2021
01
3.00
Bruce Geisler

TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM

UMass Amherst
11989
Integ. Learning Center N345
geisler@comm.umass.edu
An examination of the art, craft, and business of screenwriting from theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics include screenplay format and structure, story, plot and character development, dialog and scene description, visual storytelling, pace and rhythm, analysis of professional and student scripts and films.

Open to Senior and Junior Communication majors only. This course was formerly numbered as COMM 493E. If you have already taken COMM 493E you cannot take this course.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.